Please don’t be surprised if brick-dragging frogs and panda bears cross your chat window on WeChat. Make room when cartoon pigs in yellow jackets and construction workers’ helmets push heavy brick wheelbarrows by. And also show understanding when little cat paws frantically hammer on laptops with the please-don’t-disturb notice „搬砖ing“ (bānzhuān-ing) – „carrying bricks at the moment“ (with the English ing progressive form). Perhaps a Chinese colleague will also send you the following message: 不说了，我要搬砖了 (bù shuō le, wǒ yào bānzhuān le) „I’ll get off now, I have bricks to haul.“